Rotary filter



G. ENGEL.. 5W

ROTARY FILTER Filed Feb. 25 1920 A Ill/1141411 1 4 Sheets-Sheet l .my L wm. Mmmm G. ENGEL, SW

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l UNITED STATES icem GDFREY ENGEL, SR., OF BRGOKLYN, YORK, ASSIGNO T@ BUFFMU FUNDFLF di: M'CHNE C0., OEBUFFIG, NEW YUBK, A CURPORATIN 0F' .1W FUER.

ROTARY FILTER,

Application filed February 25, i920, Serial No. tllu. I

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that l, (learner ENGEL., Sr., a citizen ot the United States, and resident ot Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State ot 4 New Forlr, have invented certain new and usetul improvements in- Rotary Filters, ot which the tollowing is a specication.

'lhe objects ot my present invention are to improve and to increasethe etlicicncy ot lo hlterin apparatus and particularly to pro vide a ter ot relatively simple construction, which will be salt-cleaning, which can be operated continuously and which., moreover, can be adjusted and regulated to suit various lt conditions and to produce diilerent desired results.

'lhese objects l have accomplished by the employment ot va traveling Hlter screen, causing said screen to jfilter the material and tu then operating on the screen in the courseot its travel to remove the precipitate and thus continuously clean the screen.

Irlhe invention involves various other novel teatures, constructions. combinations and artt rangements ot parts, all ot which will be dis-V closed in the course ot the tollowing specihcation'.

ln the drawings accompanying and torming a part ot said specification, l have illusdll trated the invention embodied in several ot its practical and relerred terms, but wish it understood that t e same is subject to change and modication to suit diierent requirements without departure from the true spirit FF and scope ot the invention as defined in the ap ended claims. v

ln the drawings reterredV to., Figure l is a verticalsectional view ot the hlter.

Figure 2 is a similar view taken on a plane it@ substantially at-right angles to the plane ot j Fi ure l.

*igure 3 is a broken detail view ont the driving gearing for' the drum or traveling screen. v lll Figure Il is a somewhat diagrammtic view illustrating the manner in which the filter may be built u to any desired capacityout et a'numberotPcounter-part units.

Figure 5 is an enlarged brolren sectional llt view illustrating a` 'form of filter'cloth made up of an inner tabric and an outer toraminous or reticulated metallic screen element.

Figure G is a somewhat diagrammatic view illustrating a possible arrangement ol the suction connections.

Figures 7 and 8 are vertical sectional views ot amoditie-d structure in which the material. to be tiltered is forcibly introduced to the filter screen and in which., also, a part oiE tlieltrate is drawn od through a suction --tering labric ll.' rlhe metallic screen member. furthermore, is shown in the term ol an endless band supported on the annular opposed danges l2 ot the twohedds i3 and llwhich torm the ends otthe drdm.

A convenient and desirable method ot sei curing the filtering labric over the innerl lace ot the metallic screen is shown in Figure l wherein the edges ot the labric are indicated at as turned baclr over the edges ol the metallic screen and clamped in such relation by the encirclingl band clamps lt'i which are secured to ether at their ends by the bolts 17j 'lhese and clamps thus serve both to secure the bag or hltering labric and the reticulated metallic screen element upon the supporting danges ot the two end heads. y v

The drum screenl described is supported in Ithe illustration by providing the end heads with the hubs l@ and i9 journaled on the shalting 20. g

The liquid to be hltered may be led into the drum through the arial openings 21 sur rounding the supporting hubs and these openings are preferably provided with outstanding and outwardly convergent annular danges 22 which operate as collectors to prevent splash or loss ol the indowing liquid;

The drum is rotated by any suitable gearing, the same being herein shown as a worm 23 carried by shalt-2l and engaging a worm gear 25 on the end head i3. ln Figure 2 l have illustrated an approximate level ol theliquid being dltered, the indow being til) Fil

preferably governed to maintain the liquid within the filtering drum at some such level as this so as to make use of the filtering caacity. of the greater portion of the lower iialf of the drum. A

The filtrate issuing from the drum is collected in a suitable receiver, such as the tank 26 located beneath and substantially coextensive with the outside dimensions of the filtering medium.

- n the apparatus illustrated, the collecting tank is utilized also as a base for the entire machine, said tank'being shown as supportin brackets 27 and 28 at its opposite ends for t e bearings 29 30 for the shafting and as carrying also the bearings 31 for the drive shaft 24.

From the description thus far it will be l apparent that the liquid fed' into the filtering drum will' percolate by gravity1 through the lower portionl of the drum and be collected in the receiving tank.

drum and vat a Thefiltering medium at the uprising side of the drum carries along with it a certain percenta e .of the filtrate. To prevent waste or loss-o this filtrate'by evaporization or the like, I have provided a collector illustrated as a suction nozzle 32 larranged with its mouth closely adjacent to the outer surface of the reticulated screen and adapted to withdraw the filtrate adherin nto the filtering' clotln- \This filtrate co lector I have. shown 'as located at about the axis of the int above the ,highest possible li uid leve therein.

The lter'ing medium is constantly cleaned inthe course of operation of the machine by means of what I have termed a scum collector"located` inside the drum and shown as a suction nozzle 33 having its mouth disposed closely adjacentthe inner surface of the filterin fabric so as to directly remove i' the .precipitate therefrom.' This nozzle I have indnmted, as disposed adjacent the highest rtion 'of the drum so as to be .assisted 1n its action by the force of gravity,

Also by 'this arrangement the scum .collector does not operate on the filteringmedium until after it has first been partially dried by the filtrate collector and then, further dried by its passage through the air between the two nozzles; If desired, drying means may be novided to assist in this removal of the Preclptaw' Y As 'a convenient method of mounting the scum or 'precipitate collector within the drum, I propose to 'su kport the same on ythe relatively stationa aft 20, which for the purpose s-madetu lar asindicated at 34,

and has corft'dwith ita section of pipin 35 to which the nozzle 83 is directly attache A suction conduit 1.36 is 'connected `with one or both ends of the' tubular shaft and, asin the casershown, where the ,eondu'it' is' con-` nocted with only of the shaftng, the

vof a plug 37 (Fig. 1).

As it may be desirable at different times to vary the point at which the scum or precipitate is collected, I have shown the scum collector as adjustable through the medium of rocking the tubular shaft on which it is mounted, the bearings 29, 30 for said shaft beino' shown in Figs. 1 and 2 as split and 'as clamped in engagement with the shaft by the bolts 39. When these bolts are loosened, it will be obvious that the shaft may be rocked one Way| or the other and the scum collector be thereby shifted angularly about its center of support.

To overcome the possibility of any gradual accumulation of deposits, and to remove any strongly adherent particles, I have provided means in the form of a blast nozzle 40 for directing a cleansing blast from the outside of the screen inward through `the filtering medium. This blast also has a purifying effect on the medium.

In Figure 6 I have illustrated a convenient and practical method of operating the two suction nozzles 32 and 33, the same being shown as connected by suitable piping with a suction pump 41, suitable separators such as those indicated at 42 and 43 being interposed in the suction lines leading to the pump to prevent the filtrate or scum passlng on to t-he pump. The filtrate taken into the filtrate separator 42 may be led by piping 44 back to the collecting tank and the scum from the separator 43 may be carried away by the piping 45.

A special advantage of the construction disclosed is that it may be built up unit by unit into a filter of practically any desired capacity. This possibilityl have illustrated in Figure 4 in which view 46, 47 and 48 designate three filter units disposed side by side on a common axis and consisting of three drum sections supported between `end heads 13Pand 14 and the intermediate heads 49 and 50. The end heads 13Il and 14l are shown as similar in construction to the end heads 13 and 14 in Figure 1 and the intermediate heads 49 and 50 are of like construction, except that they are more in the nature of spiders having passages 51 therethrough to permit free flow of the liquid between the several sections. It will be seen, that by increasing the length of the shafting and adding as many intermediate sections as may be needed, the filter may be built up practically to any required capacity.

4 In the constructions which I have illustrated in Figures 7 to 1,0,y the impetus of the inilowing material is utilizedas a force to assist the filtering. operation. In these views the material to be filtered is introduced into the drum by a su 'ply nozzle 55 arranged with its monti. clo y adjacent ythe lll lli

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tatami point alcove the liquid level therein. Thin manner ol forceful introduction causes a certain amount, including a lighter portion ot the liquid to pass directly throu h the nlter cloth, asvindxcated at 56, which ighter nltrate may be caught in a separate receptacle 57. The balance of the introduced material settles and filters by gravity, as in the constructionnrst described. y i

The nltering action may also, under certain circumstances, he assisted hy suction. 'l`hus l have shown at 58 a nozzle arranged to exert suction through the nltering element on the body of liquid within the nlter. ,'lhis suction nozzle may he disposed at higher or lower levels to draw on lighter or heaviergrades of nitrate, or simply so as to operate on the body of liquid at dinerent levels.` This suction nozzle may he utilized liquid at a certain definite level, as is indicated in Figure 7 The suction nozzle 58 may, it desired, he coupled up with the nltrate collecting nozzle 32 which usually is located at a higher level.

ln Figure 8 I have shown how hoth the supply nozzle and the scum collecting nozzle may be supported on the one section ot shutting which, for the purpose et` separating the two conduits, is provided with a spe-A cial ntting 59 having one passage t0 open to the conduit 35 oi the scum collector 33 and having another passage nl arranged at an nected therewith e piping 62 which supports the supply nozzle 55.. ln such a construction the suction pi .ing 3d is connected with the end ot the ho low shutting which is in communication with the scum passage tin and the other end oi the shutting has `connected thereto a supply conduit 63,.

Where a multiple construction such as that illustrated in Figure 9 is used, the separate passages tor the iniowing liquid and the outgoing scum may be provided by making the shutting with concentric passages t4 and n, one connected with the scum4 collecting nozzles 33 and the other connected with. the delivery nozzles 55.

ln the operation of theconstructions last described, it will he seen that the liquid entered in the drum, filters hy impetus, gravity and suction consecutively and that the residue or precipitate is continuousl removed from the nltering medium, which is lurthermore cleaned by. a hlast ot steam, compressed air or other Huid.

lt is possihle with the constructions dis,- closed to verify the operation ol the nlter at any time and to kee it under such control as to obtain the desired results with ditterent filtering materials. Either or allot the. tonces 'or impetus, gravity and suction maybe utilized as seems best under dinerent cirvumvtena also as `a means for maintaining the body of angle to the nrst passage and having con? The nitrate may be removed at one or din'erent points and may consist ot natural impurities or matter which has been added to the nltering liquid to aid or improve the nltration thereof. ln the latter event and in certain other cases, the precipitate may be collected and saved lor further or other use.

Another tcature ot the invention which ll have illustrated particularly in Figure nis the rovisionot means tor collecting any surp us or overflow. 'l`hus in the view ree terred to ll have 'shown the nanges 22 at the arial openings in the end heads as narod outwardly at 222L to provide ovcrtlow lips emptying into collecting troughs 70 shown provided with piping il tor returning the surplus baclr to the source oi supply. With this construction, in case the nltering liquid is supplied at too rapid a rate or in case the nltering medium should operate too slowly, the excess liquid is caught and returned to the source ot supply in readiness to be passed bach to the nlter.

What l claim is:

l. d nlter comprising a rotary drum having a peripheral portion ot nlter cloth, means tor teeding the liquid to be nltered into the axial portion ot the drum and a collectin tanlr tor the nitrate disposed beneath and coeztensive with the lower portion ot the drum, said drum having end heads closed except at the anial portions thereon where the liquid is entered and provided at such axial portions with substantially circular openings surrounded by outwardly converging annular collecting nanges.

2. i nlter comprising a rotating drum screen, means tor needing the liquid to he nltered into said drum, means tor collecting the nltrate issuing trom the screen and ladditional means tor abstracting the nitrate adu hering to the screen and including a sta tionary suction nozzle outside the drum and supported with its mouth in close proximity to the outer surtace ot the screen and at a goint above the possible liquid level in the rum.

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means tor teeding the liquid to he nltered into said drum, means tor collecting the nitrate issuing trom the drum and a suction nozzle disposed with its mouth adjacent the inner surtace ot the screen and at a point ahove the possible liquid level in the drum.

2i. ln a nlter, a rotating drum screen, means tor needing the liquid to he nltered intosaid drum, means tor collecting the nltrate issuing trom the drum,va suction nozzle disposed with 'its mouth adjacent the in@ ner surface or the screen and at a p ltd - alcove the possible liquid level inthe tu and a filtrate collecting nozzle disposed with its mouth adjacent the outer surface of the screen and at a point to operate on the screen in advance of the first mentioned suction nozzle.

5. In a filter, a rotatin drum screen means for` feeding the liquid to beliltered into said drum, means for collecting the filtrate issuing from the drum, a suction nozzle disposed with its mouth adjacent the inner surface of the screen andat a int above the possible liquid level in the clim, a filtrate collecting nozzle disposed with its mouth adjacent the outersurface of the screen and at a point to opeiate on the screen in advance of the frstfntioned suction nozzle and means for directing a cleaning blast inwardly through the screen and disposed to operate on the screen after the screen has been acted upon by the first mentioned suction nozzle.

6. In a filter, supporting means, a tubular shaft ioitably adjustable inl-said supportin means, a nozzle carried by said shaft and adjustable therewith and a traveling vfilter screen operating about the shaft and acted upon by said nozzle.

7. A filter comprising split bearings, a tubular shaft mounted in said bearings, means for clamping the bearings on said shaft to hold the same in various angularly adjusted positions, a collector sup rted by said shaft and a drum screen rotatlng about the shaft with its inner surface in close proximity to themouthof said collector.

8. In a filter a rotating drum screen, means for feeding the liquid to be filtered into said drum, means for collectingl the filtrate issuing from the drum, a relatively stationary suction nozzle disposed with its mouth adjacent the inner surface of the screen at a point above the poible liquid level in the drum, a filtrate collecting nozzle disposed with its mouth adjacent the outer surface of the screen and at a point to one side of the inside suction nozzle and a nozzle for directing a cleaning blast inwardly through the uppenportlon of the screen at a point' above the liquid level in the drum.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto'y set my hand this 17th day of February, 1920.

GODFREY ENGL, sn. 

